The fight to love who we want to love, and to entrust our hearts to the person we choose, has always been a long, difficult battle. To win it often means getting hurt along the way.
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BL Week in Review
This week, so many series began and ended that it almost gave me whiplash. Still, there were some highlights.
“Chosen Home” is a queer drama from Japan that made me smile through the entire episode. I wouldn’t call it BL. Still, it had a strong found-family element that I adored.
BL Mini-Bytes
We had a steady stream of news updates from the BL/GL world the past week. It seems that the genre is fast evolving into a lucrative business with most countries in Southeast Asia reaping the benefits!
Currently Airing Japanese BLs That Are Making Waves
Japanese BLs are fast evolving and surpassing their Thai counterpart. From being an inconsequential entity, the genre has become taciturn with thoroughly well paced storylines, daring casting and intriguing directorials. Since our timeline is flooded with Japanese BLs, we decided it was time to list the current favorites!
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“Love Sea: The Home for Lovers” Series Review (Ep.3 to 10+ 2 Special Episodes)
The thing with remakes is that they aren’t necessarily on par with the original!
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“Punks Triangle” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Love is multi-faceted, but we often tend to show our best sides to the people we are attracted to rather than the depths of who we are. The new Japanese BL Punks Triangle takes two young men and one mistaken identity to reveal not only a blooming romance, but two sides of who each of them are.
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“You Don’t Know” Series Review (Ep.1 to 4)
This is such a story of contrasts that when you watch, it will no doubt make your head spin. It is not a BL yet has such a deep undertone of attraction between two male figures that you cannot miss its elucidation. It also is a story of ornamented family ties that at the same time their underlying behaviors upgrade the definition of dysfunctional family – they go from a ‘loving’ unit to sociopaths capable of committing unspeakable evil acts as well as treat each other with contempt. We see a ‘bad’ person accomplish acts of kindness yet be interpreted as evil actions. At the same time, ‘good’ people executing exploits of atrocities and interpreting them as justifiable acts. The whole series has example after example of oxymoronic tableaux. In the end, however, despite the conflicting messages, its arc is quite clear.
“Mandate” Series Review (Ep.1 to 8)
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed”- Mao Zedong
BL Week in Review
Of the thirty-four currently airing BL dramas, I am only watching thirteen. Even so, it feels like a lot to watch. Perhaps it’s because the buzz on social media keeps increasing. More and more people have something to say about these series, which is amazing but also time-consuming.
BL Mini-Bytes
The announcements were pretty dim last week, so we just had two major exclusives making it to the headlines. So, it seems like we will be waiting a bit longer to check out the upcoming GMMTV Lineup!
The BL Xpress 